I would rather we had a clean registry and a simple example import, and
also simple instructions on how to clean up/refresh. That teaches users
how to do imports, etc.
I guess I think this feature is maybe just a bit wierd in a real life
case. I can't imagine any user using this in a real scenario which is
what worries me.
Paul
Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote:
Paul Fremantle wrote:
That's not answering the question Deepal .. I think the concern is
that if you change the underlying DB by mistake you're, um, screwed.
I guess you really aren't - if you switch and switch back effectively
you've just "connected" to an existing registry datastore. So in
effect the UI is somewhat de-coupled from the underlying datastore.
I still don't understand the usecase for this. I hate having "cool"
features that don't have a use-case. And this seems like one of them.
This is what I expect to be in a config file and I don't expect to
change it often.
OK so here's the history of this: we want to ship a nice sample right?
At the same time, we don't want to pre-populate the shipping reg with a
bunch of stuff which the user has to delete (which will start their reg
in an unclean state as the old stuff would be there). So the idea was
why not switch a different database for the sample and just switch
to/from that.
That required a config file somewhere .. which has since found its way
into WEBINF somewhere. (Optional, of course.)
Then do we really need to force users to shutdown, edit the war and
restart to switch the DB? Why not just allow the person to edit the
config directly.
So .. that's how we ended up with the one-click data source switching
capability :-).
We this really does feel too powerful then I just realized we could've
simply shipped two wars .. reg-sample and reg. One has a virgin database
and the other has the sample database. Maybe that's easier and cleaner.
Sorry; that only occurred to me now :(.
Sanjiva.
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